On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 06:24:34PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 04:53:12PM +0300, George Danchev wrote: > > On Thursday 08 September 2005 16:21, Sven Luther wrote: > > --cut-- > > > Yeah, well, i did an apt-get install star and looked at the copyright > > > file, > > > so i am not sure what facts i have to believe then. > > > > > > > http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/s/star/star_1.4a17-3/star > > > >.copyright > > > > > > > > Took about ten seconds to find out it was GPL before upstream relicensed > > > > and debian maint just copied that. > > > > > > Ah, ok, nice to know. > > > > Note that the latest upstream development version is star-1.5a67.tar.gz [1] > > and is CDDL licensed with the following slight modifications: > > Which constitutes a trademark violation at the very least (it's not > the CDDL any more) and quite probably a copyright one (the CDDL isn't > modifiable).
Since the star upstream author is deeply involved with sun and the whole opensolaris guys, and he told me on the opensolaris list that he did ask for a modular choice-of-venue thingy and that none of the opensolaris guys from sun told him differently, i clearly doubt there is any such problem :) Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
